 London is the home of an enormous amount of material relating not only to the lives of Londoners, but also to a very substantial degree those who made up the population of the country as a whole. The sheer number of London related record types is so broad as to defy any attempt to detail them in full here, but as a guide, and perhaps as inspiration, we have itemised below those most commonly used in any program of genealogical research. You will undoubtedly at some stage need to access more than one of these sources, and possibly a substantial number. Equally you may not find reference to that which you are seeking in the list, and in this respect we can only reiterate that a comprehensive summary would be wholly impractical. Out of expediency only London orientated sources are shown. The websites of the national repositories will answer any queries as to their own holdings.
- Certificates of birth, death & marriage 1837 to date
- Census returns 1841 to 1901
- Wills from the 14th century to date
- Death Duty
- Parish registers of baptism, marriage & burial 16th century to date
- Non-conformist registers
- Apprenticeships
- Freemen of the City of London
- Livery Companies
- Middlesex Deeds registry
- Quarter Sessions
- Coroners’ inquests
- Local newspapers
- Street and trade directories
- School registers
- Electoral registers
- Workhouse records
- Hospital and Asylum admission & discharge registers
- Militia lists
- Old Bailey Sessions
- Business archives
- Estate records
- Marriage licences
- Poor Law records
- Lloyd’s Marine collection
- ‘London Gazette’
- ‘The Times’
- Settlement & Removal orders
- Pedigree collections and Family histories
- Monumental inscriptions
- Maps
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